TITLE:
Positive Perfectionism: Seeking the Healthy “Should”, or Should We?
AUTHORS:
Danielle M. Andrews, Lawrence R. Burns, Jacqueline K. Dueling
KEYWORDS:
Positive Perfection, Negative Perfection, Positive Affect, Negative Affect, Optimism, Pessimism, Health Behaviors, Psychological Well-Being
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.8,
August
22,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Using a prospective design we examined the
nomological network of positive and negative perfectionism by considering
relations with optimism, pessimism, neuroticism, conscientiousness, and
variables of health and psychological well-being. Positive perfectionism was
found to have a large amount of variance in common with optimism and conscientiousness
and negative perfectionism was found to share a large amount of variance with
pessimism and neuroticism, but not enough to be considered redundant in either
case. Importantly, both positive and negative perfectionism were found to add
significant incremental validity to the prediction of the criterion measures
even after controlling for the influence of time one variables. Implications of
these findings for future research on perfectionism are discussed.